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What I feel is not anger, but rather patriotic duty. America is a
grand experiment in self-determination, individual liberty, and
innovation: an experiment not worth conceding without a fight.

On New Year's Eve, with almost no mainstream media attention
given to it, President Barack Obama signed the National Defense
Authorization Act of 2012, or NDAA, into law. Since I am not an
attorney, I will fall back on the ACLU's analysis of this disastrous new law: "On December
31, 2011, President Obama signed the National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA), codifying indefinite military detention
without charge or trial into law for the first time in American
history. The NDAA’s dangerous detention provisions would
authorize the president — and all future presidents — to order
the military to pick up and indefinitely imprison people captured
anywhere in the world, far from any battlefield."

Think about those words: indefinite military detention
without charge or trial.

Obama's administration, and all future administrations (including
a Romney or Gingrich administration), can now use the military to
detain individuals, including political dissidents -- even
American citizens on U.S. soil -- without trial or
formal charges. Without court involvement or a jury deciding you
are actually guilty. And "detain" is really a euphemism for
IMPRISON, of course. You won't be spending the lunch hour in
detention. You'll be in a semi-secret military black site,
without access to your attorney, potentially for life.

This is what kings do. This is what bloodthirsty dictators do.
This is not what freely elected American presidents are
authorized by the Constitution to do.

Moving on: Obama also signed into law something which attacks
your First Amendment rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of
speech. No, this is not an Onion article.

You see, the Federal Restricted
Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, or
Trespass Bill, signed into law by Barack Obama on March 9, 2012,
"potentially makes peaceable protest anywhere in the U.S. a
federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison." More
specifically, peaceful protest within proximity to those
protected by the Secret Service, including presidential
candidates and the President, may be a federal felony now.
(Source.)

Even worse: a former high-ranking NSA official, who spent
more than three decades within the spy agency, just yesterday
came out in a nationally televised
interview and asserted that more than 20 trillion
(yes, with a T) of American citizens' communications have been
intercepted -- mostly without a warrant or judicial review of any
kind.

One could say that William Binney, a whistleblowing patriot
of the highest order, is now toward the top of the list of people
who might experience a "slip in the shower" or "unexpected
suicide" within the next few weeks.

Furthermore, the NSA is now building a $2 billion data center in Utah
to crunch all of this data. In other words, $2 billion of our
taxpayer dollars are going toward spying on American citizens
within the U.S. without warrant or court approval. This is not
only an outlandish waste of money, it's illegal.

Also: reporters at ridiculously mainstream publication USA
Today are now claiming that
Pentagon-sponsored "propaganda contractors" have initiated a
widespread character assassination and reputation destroying
campaign against them.

This is not the America I learned about in school. I want my
country back.

Am I willing to sacrifice my reputation for this? Am I
willing to sacrifice my life for this? Sure.

People throughout history have sacrificed far more, for far
less.

The next time a TSA agent at the airport gropes your wife
in front of you, massages her breasts and places his hand on her
genitals, you may want to speak up. You may want to remind
yourself that you are an American citizen -- with rights and
duties vested in you by the Constitution -- and not a coward
living in some creeper starvation state like North Korea.

Wake up, speak up, and don't trust the pacifying mainstream
media -- which has lost
more than 50% of its viewers since last year, due to their
inability (or unwillingness) to cover these crucial issues. They
are complicit in the destruction of your basic civil rights, and
your dignity.